Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COVENHAM-ST. MARY

COVENHAM-ST. MARY, a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; adjacent to the Boston and Grimsby railway and to the Louth navigation, 2 miles SE of Ludborough r. station, and 4½ NNE of Louth. Post town, Covenham, under Louth. Acres, 950. Real property, £1, 565. Pop., 196. Houses, 46. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £197. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is decorated English, in tolerable condition; and contains an Easter sepulchre in the north wall of the chancel. Charities, £32.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Covenham St Mary AP/CP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Covenham St Mary

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